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jordileft
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 Posted: Sat Aug 29, 2009 6:59 am Post subject: Bluexurious, new custom tube amp |
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Hi, as my end-of-career project, I and another student from my university made a custom amp. We designed the schematic, chassis and cabinet. It's a 15W push-pull class AB with three 12AX7 in the preamp and two EL84 in the output, it has a Celestion G12-65 and a Ruby Tubes reverb. We design it to be similar to Fender amps in order to play from jazz, blues and other soft styles to rock. We name it Bluexurious and it really sounds great. Its similar to a Blues Junior or a Princeton but with some more controls, a warmer tone and with less noise and a additional channel for having a little more boost for solos, which can be controlled by te switch on the front or by footswitch. We really enjoyed doing this project so we wanted to share with people around the web. Here it is a photobucket with some pics and youtube video with some demos, it's not high quality 'cause I recorded with the video option of my photo camera but it gives you and idea. I hope you like it.
http://s767.photobucket.com/albums/xx312/jordileft/
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_rX-Og3EuXs |
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Phill_B
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jordileft
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| Phill_B wrote: | | That sounds great! Are you making more of these? |
No, by the moment, I think I will wait some time until I have some money and, but before building a new one I think I will make some modifications on this amp, 'cause it would be great to try to make it smaller and lighter, but I hope some day in the future I build a more powered amp. |
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Phill_B
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| Posted: Sat Nov 07, 2009 9:53 am Post subject: |
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Cool, I think its a great sounding and looking amp. I'd love to play through one when you make more!
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Budda
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| Posted: Sat Nov 07, 2009 10:18 am Post subject: |
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Slick! That looks very nice.
And I liked the clarity and note seperation on your clip. Went from spanky to a nice warm and articulate tone, when you switched to the neck PU on the Tele.
Lighter? How about a Head/Cab configuration? |
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jordileft
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| Posted: Mon Nov 09, 2009 12:18 am Post subject: |
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| Budda wrote: |
Lighter? How about a Head/Cab configuration? |
You are right, a Head/Cab config could be great and would solve the weight problems, but I don't know why but I really prefer combo config on this type of amps, I think it's just aesthetics but I like that way. Maybe I try to redesign the cabinet, I don't know. I'll let you know if I make any change. |
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